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Academic OneFile articles from 10,000 journals and reference works covering all subjects, including the full-text of The New York Times back to 1995 and NPR, CNN & CBC transcripts and podcasts.
Expanded Academic ASAP gives access to full-text scholarly journals, new magazines and newspapers for all academic disciplines.
InfoTrac Junior Edition is designed for junior high and middle school students. Includes mainly full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books covering current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
InfoTrac Student Edition is designed for high school students. Includes mainly full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books covering current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
General OneFile Use this comprehensive periodical resource for any subject. Coverage goes back to 1980- with over 9,200 titles (5,156 full-text).
General Reference Center Use this general interest database for full-text and images from magazines, reference books, and newspapers for information on current events, popular culture, the arts and sciences, sports, etc.
Biography in Context Use this database for over 400,000 biographies covering literary figures, science, multicultural studies, business, entertainment, politics, sports, government, history, current events and the arts.
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Health and Wellness Resource Center Access to 400 health/medical journals and over 700 health videos.
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Massachusetts History Online Use this collection for full-text articles from 50 magazines and local newspapers for coverage of Massachusetts people, places and historical events.
U.S. History in Context delivers coverage of the most-studied topics.
World History in Context reaches back to ancient times and extends to today's headlines.
Books & Authors Looking for a good book, but not sure where to start? WHO WHAT WHERE WHEN lets you browse by Character, Subject, Location and Time Period, and get a visual representation of your matching books.
Contemporary Literary Criticism An extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary writers. Each entry also contains a biographical/critical introduction, a list of principal works, and sources for further study.
Literature Resource Center Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.
LitFinder Covering world literature and authors throughout history, LitFinder contains a wealth of literary works including over 150,000 full-text poems and 800,000 poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches and plays.
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Boston Globe Full-text coverage from 1980.
New York Times Full-text of The New York Times from 1985- as a standalone file (also included in Academic OneFile).
Science in Context shows how science relates to real-world issues from acid rain to zoology.
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